I love playing board games with the boys and I hate it at the same time. On the one hand, it’s great for learning how to take turns, losing to lose, learning to win, and it’s great family time. On the other hand, it’s heartbreaking to watch your kid getting more and more frustrated by…
We are well into summer which means the regular kind of cool activities are no longer cutting it. I’m having to up my game. A few years ago I did a bunch of activities featuring water and I thought I wanted to do more like that. Well, the activity morphed beyond water play, but it…
Pool noodles are cheap and kids need something fun, right? We did all of this with just 3 pool noodles (and we didn’t even use all of them…). Pool noodle sculptures saved the day! Now, I’m not a mom that feels I need to entertain my kids all the time. Boredom is incredibly helpful to…
I feel like a broken record telling you how hot it is…but it is so hot! Cooling off this summer is becoming something we must do constantly. I can barely walk to the car. As such, we are not in the kitchen cooking. We make snacks and salads, but cooking it limited. So I wanted…
I kind of have a love/hate relationship with holidays but I really enjoy getting in a holiday mood. And the Fourth of July is a pretty tame holiday. There just aren’t as many expectations as other holidays. Have a BBQ, see the fireworks, curse at your neighbors still celebrating at 11 p.m. (even though it’s…
We have just started really using week 1 and I have to say, it’s going better than I thought. None of them like to write and there is a good amount of writing in the program. But they don’t mind this writing!! Baloo, the one most adverse to writing, actually asked me to print out…
Kids make the best observations. And the most embarrassing. When doing laundry the other day, Logi-Bear found a bra of mine. He didn’t have the right word so he called it my “boob holder”. Just glad it didn’t come up in public! When we first started learning about Q he called it the “O with…
Road trips sound like a lot of fun until you are facing one with a toddler. Even a young child. But I promise you, road trips with kids can be fun. Even with toddlers. I come to this topic with a good bit of experience. We made the drive from Alabama to Arizona (27 hours…)…
The first thing I heard when I woke up Friday was “Finding Dory comes out today!!”. I honestly don’t know how they knew. We don’t really watch TV. Or YouTube. Or anything with commercials. I suspect it was my mother (who is way more excited for Finding Dory than anyone else in existence). Still, surprised…
Teaching math can be one of the most fun and most frustrating experiences. I love math. As Lindsay Lohan said in Mean Girls, it’s the same in every country. Math is a constant. But teaching math can be it’s own beast. Especially at the beginning, which is where we are with Logi-Bear. The funny thing…
Learning to read can be a really difficult task. But by making it fun, it’ll seem a lot easier. Each of the boys has presented a unique way of learning to read. So far they’ve all approached it differently. Baloo went with the method where he wouldn’t do anything and then one day he could…
It’s getting to that part of summer – too hot to be outside during the day but not enough to do inside. Well here it’s like that, at least! We live in the desert and it’s been 108+ that past week. Insanely hot. But at least it’s a dry heat. I don’t do well with…